02-09-2024, 08:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2024, 08:58 AM by KillerLeft.)
I think everyone here should take the time to listen carefully to the Hoop Collective’s read on the Mavs’ day in their trade deadline recap episode. You don’t have to agree, but if you listen with an open mind it will scare you, at least a little.
Honestly, I don’t know if Luka stays or goes. I think he signs the supermax and then asks out afterwards if he does go, but…I think the lack of draft capital might make that decision for me if I were he.
If that happens, then they’ll probably recoup a little draft capital by moving him, but it won’t be nearly as good as their own draft capital that OKC, BRK and SA will be feasting on at that time.
And, what are they going to do if he just leaves in two years as a free agent, Brunson style??? I don’t think that’s likely, exactly, but we didn’t want to acknowledge the possibility with Brunson, either. I think they’d end up being very happy that they top two predicted the pick they just traded to Charlotte, but even if they win five fewer games than anybody else in the NBA they will still be depending on ping-pong balls to keep that pick. After that, they won’t control any of their own draft capital, which should all be amazing draft capital, for few years.
I like both of the moves they made yesterday in terms of the players they added. The more I think about it, however, the more I think the smartest thing would have been to do nothing or maybe even to try to add draft capital by selling off some of their depth.
Honestly, I don’t know if Luka stays or goes. I think he signs the supermax and then asks out afterwards if he does go, but…I think the lack of draft capital might make that decision for me if I were he.
If that happens, then they’ll probably recoup a little draft capital by moving him, but it won’t be nearly as good as their own draft capital that OKC, BRK and SA will be feasting on at that time.
And, what are they going to do if he just leaves in two years as a free agent, Brunson style??? I don’t think that’s likely, exactly, but we didn’t want to acknowledge the possibility with Brunson, either. I think they’d end up being very happy that they top two predicted the pick they just traded to Charlotte, but even if they win five fewer games than anybody else in the NBA they will still be depending on ping-pong balls to keep that pick. After that, they won’t control any of their own draft capital, which should all be amazing draft capital, for few years.
I like both of the moves they made yesterday in terms of the players they added. The more I think about it, however, the more I think the smartest thing would have been to do nothing or maybe even to try to add draft capital by selling off some of their depth.
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